Reading Renaissance in MISD

Reading Renaissance is a district initiative implemented on all campuses within McKinney ISD.

Primary Goal : Improve Reading
*Accelerate growth in reading
*Foster a love of literature
*Develop life-long readers and critical thinkers
*Build model classrooms, libraries and schools
*Improve test scores

What is Accelerated Reader?
The computerized learning information system designed to help motivate, monitor, and manage student reading practice.
Used most simply, AR involves three steps:
1. The student selects a book with an AR Quiz
2. The student reads the book
3. The student takes a quiz on a computer

What is Reading Renaissance?
The set of teaching techniques that when combined with Accelerated Reader results in maximum reading growth for every student.

Reading Renaissance takes AR to deeper levels when:
*Time is devoted to reading books
*Each student reads at an appropriate level
*Teachers, students and parents receive information from AR so that they can monitor and guide reading practice

Reading practice can happen in 3 ways:
*Reading To
*Reading With
*Ready Independently

AR Points & Accountability:
Each book,for which there is an AR quiz, has a point value based on its readability and length.  After a student takes a quiz, they receive points based on the book's point value and how well they did on the quiz.  This way, points are a measure of reading practice --- a summary of quantity, quality and difficulty level.

How much reading time is enough?
*60 minutes per day in school for independent reading
*Studies taken in 1996 concluded that an average of 7.1 minutes per day grades K - 12 was spent on practice reading outside instructional reading.  Reading Renaissance's additional 1 hour per day produces dramatic increases in student reading growth.

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